In the game of blackjack, determine the odds of dealing yourself a blackjack (ace plus face-card or 10) from a single deck. show how you arrived at your answer.

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Shayla Rich

Mathematics

22 March, 03:55

In the game of blackjack, determine the odds of dealing yourself a blackjack (ace plus face-card or 10) from a single deck. show how you arrived at your answer.

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Haney · Answer 1

There are 4 aces and 16 tens (10/J/Q/K of each suit). So there are (16*4 = 64 ways to deal a blackjack with ace as first card and a ten as the second card - Ace/10. There are another 64 ways to deal it with a ten as the first card and the ace as the second card - 10/Ace. That's 128 first/second card combinations that are blackjacks.

There are 52 possibilities for the first card, 51 for the second for 2652 total possible first/second card combinations so the odds of dealing a blackjack are 128/2652, which reduces to 32/663 odds